“The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.”

“Lastly, say to me, if you can, with feelings as tender as mine for you: my dear Beelzebub, I adore you...”

“Man was made of a little mud and water. Could not a woman be made of dew, earthen mists and beams of light, condensed remnants of a rainbow?”

“Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.”

“There is nothing 'Natural' that is ugly, for the inner 'Truth' of 'Nature' is always 'Beautiful'.”

“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”